Weil wir längst woanders sind : Roman / Rasha Khayat.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Khayat, Rasha, 1978- author.

Contributor:

Department of Germanic Languages Book Fund.

Language:

German

Subjects (All):

Siblings--Fiction.

Siblings.

Brothers and sisters.

Saudi Arabians.

Germany.

Saudi Arabians--Germany--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Novels.

Psychological fiction.

Physical Description:

202 pages ; 19 cm

Place of Publication:

Köln Dumont, 2017.

Language Note:

In German.

Summary:

"A gentle, empathic story of a brother and sister and a book about a Saudi Arabia very different from the one we hear of in the news. Layla and Basil are like binary stars, inseparable siblings who belong together and nothing can come between them. Together they are a unit of two against the world. Then Layla makes a decision that nobody understands, but which changes everything: She decides to marry. A man form the old home, Saudi-Arabia. A decision not made out of love, but out of principle. In doing so, she is giving up one life for the sake of another - one that she does not know, that she has never lived and which was denied to her by her parents' decision to bring the children to Germany. "Because We Are Already Somewhere Else" tells the story of Basil's journey to his sister's wedding. A last time he wants to fee the old closeness. At the same time the journey leads him directly into his own past: the charmingly crazy cosmos of his Saudi relatives - people who were never present in his "German life" and, at the same time, were always there like a parallel universe. What could have convinced Layla, a young, secular, freedom loving woman, to want to go to a land in which women are anything but free? How can we confront such feelings of foreignness, when they cannot be addressed in the Here and How? Is our Western freedom perhaps a simple claim rather than a reality, now that nobody is fighting for it any longer - nobody sees what a treasure it is? The author not only asks painful questions, but finds answers to them that are every bit as uncomfortable as the questions themselves, because they touch the inner self."--Publisher's website.

Contents:

Schnee

Aufbruch

Jeddah

Layla

Barbara

Freitag

Abendlied

Bewegen

Brücken

Durra

Grün

Mekka

Tarek

Wadi al-Hisham

Scherben

Hochzeit

Abreise.

Notes:

Publisher's English translation sample pdf has title "Because We're Elsewhere Now."

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Department of Germanic Languages Book Fund.

ISBN:

9783832164096

383216409X

OCLC:

989502980